[BRLTTY] permissions on the brlapi.key file

[Jason White]

kendell clark <coffeekingms at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> Since my last email, braille is working beautifully, including contracted
> braille. However there is one minor thing I'd like to fix in brltty's
> package build script so that braille more or less works out of the box, at
> least for USB displays. The reason orca was having so much trouble with the
> braille sense wasn't the display or orca, it was the permissions that were
> set on the /etc/brlapi.key file. It was owned by root and readable only by
> root. I was able to fix this by entering "sudo chmod 755 /etc/brlapi.key" in
> a terminal, after which everything worked. 


You don't need execute permission: 644 should be fine. The important point is
that the user which runs Orca must have read permission on the brlapi.key
file.

As you rightly indicate, you can set the permissions in your installation
script.